- Frank Calder: You ain't too bad. For a schoolteacher.
- Melissa Ruger: If you think you're going to get a lot of money for me, you're wrong. They'll be coming after us, you know. A lot of men.
- Frank Calder: Why? They short of teachers back there?
- Melissa Ruger: I am not a teacher. I am Brandt Ruger's wife. I am! I am Brandt Rugers wife!
- Frank Calder: It don't matter whose wife you are. There ain't nothin' he can do about it.
- Melissa Ruger: Why do you want to learn to read?
- Frank Calder: 'Cause I can't.
- [first lines]
- Melissa Ruger: Brandt. Stop! Brandt?
- Brandt Ruger: Get dressed.
- Melissa Ruger: Brandt, why do we...
- Brandt Ruger: Get dressed!